On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:23:02 -0700, Douglas J Wallen wrote:
>The reference is to a paper by Naomi Weisstein published in the
>late 1960's (I don't have the reference handy). She was discussing
>the question of how far the Hubel and Weisel feature detector concept
>could be pushed in explaining pattern recognition.
Right you are, sir! The reference is below and the chapter is from
Solso's "Loyola Symposium" volume which I assume that cognitive
psychologists of the 1970s vintage were familiar with.
Reference:
Weisstein, N. (1973). Beyond the yellow-volkswagen detector and the
grandmother cell: A general strategy for the exploration of operations in
human pattern recognition. Contemporary issues in cognitive psychology:
The loyola symposium. (Robert L. Solso, Ed.). Oxford, England: V. H.
Winston & Sons.
And to Stephen Black, yes it's "yellow volkwagen" and not "yellow
submarine" presumably because one was more likely to see yellow volkswagens
on the road back in the 1960s than yellow submarines but I guess that
depends upon the substances one ingested that day ("Baby you're a
rich man...").
-Mike Palij
New York University
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